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Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by omakase »

nirmal wrote: post #29
omakase wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to replace your profile url with ours, we only suggest that for people that don't have a website. You could claim your comments: http://www.backtype.com/url/news.ycombinator.com%252fuser%3F... and add them to your account and create a widget no problem.

Can widgets pull in the actual comments? The widget I'm looking at only has a link to the parent article. I'd actually like both.

Right now the search widget is the only one that displays comments: http://mm.urbantwelve.com/

We could do this pretty easily though.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by epi0Bauqu »

jonnytran wrote: post #16
spage wrote: post #9

A good example of a novel minor marketing effort for your start-up. An excellent idea. Putting together something small like the Karma Widget is an enjoyable diversion to boot. We all need those once in a while.

The real kicker here is that he's giving people incentive to group together all their profiles across the web, allowing Duck Duck Go to search people better than anyone else. That's genius!

This gives me a bit too much foresight credit. Honestly, I got the idea for these widgets after seeing one too many comments like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=379936. I agree with that thread that your YC karma isn't too useful on other sites, but then I realized it would be useful to display on your own sites.

So I got to building it... I quickly realized that there is karma on other sites, and it might be cool to aggregate. Then I realized I could possibly generate some new Duck Duck Go users this way. Then I realized (by someone indirectly pointing it out to me), that there are SEO implications when deploying widgets.

But I didn't think (until your comment) about improving search by aggregating profile information :). Just to be clear wrt privacy, we're not currently storing any IP info or the aggregate usernames in the DB, and have no plans to do so: http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by nirmal »

omakase wrote: post #31
nirmal wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can widgets pull in the actual comments? The widget I'm looking at only has a link to the parent article. I'd actually like both.

Right now the search widget is the only one that displays comments: http://mm.urbantwelve.com/ We could do this pretty easily though.

I submitted a formal request as well, just in case no one was monitoring this thread.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by epi0Bauqu »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #30
Alex3917 wrote: post #28

Suggested additions: Facebook friends and feedburner subscribers.

Noted. Thought about both, but didn't see an easy way to integrate, so put off. Anyone know of any easy way? Feedburner seems only to serve images of the #, and FB seems to require auth.

Here's the way for Feedburner: http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=Hack...

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by epi0Bauqu »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #30
Alex3917 wrote: post #28

Suggested additions: Facebook friends and feedburner subscribers.

Noted. Thought about both, but didn't see an easy way to integrate, so put off. Anyone know of any easy way? Feedburner seems only to serve images of the #, and FB seems to require auth.

Striking out with FB (for w/o auth). It is supremely annoying FB doesn't include the # on their public pages, e.g. http://www.facebook.com/people/Gabriel-Weinberg/700754

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by mhartl »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #19
mhartl wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh noes! There's no easy way to get from the widget page to your main page. Maybe you should link the top image to '/'?

Good call. Done.

Well done, sir. (P.S. I'm not my fucking khakis. :-)

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by felixc »

If people would just stop caring about meaningless numbers displayed next to your username, the world would be a better place. Specifically, the world of community-moderated sites wouldn't have to put up with crap submissions that exist solely to gather up-votes.

Re: Karma Widget: Display Your YC (and other) Karma

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Post by paul9290 »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #32
jonnytran wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real kicker here is that he's giving people incentive to group together all their profiles across the web, allowing Duck Duck Go to search people better than anyone else. That's genius!

This gives me a bit too much foresight credit. Honestly, I got the idea for these widgets after seeing one too many comments like this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=379936 . I agree with that thread that your YC karma isn't too useful on other sites, but then I realized it would be useful to display on your own sites. So I got to building it... I quickly realized that there is karma on other sites, and it…

Such karma across many platforms and that is verified by trusted contacts(your friends) will prove in general to be extremely powerful for semantic/social services!

For example an idea of mine is to create a Rotten Tomatoes meets Twitter. Instead of indexing/compiling trusted press/bloggers I want a web-service/site that reads, understands and compiles all the reviews on Twitter about each movie. Right now I have to search tons and tons of Twitter search pages, as opposed to a web-service doing this automatically and presenting it in a simple UI. This same idea can be applied to tons of topics..restuarants, hotels, etc, etc....

One issue with this idea is it can be gamed easily, but not if this service only reads, understands and compiles from trusted/verified sources (karma being a good way to achieve this).

Might be abstract, but 1st time writing this idea/thought out!

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